hundred
/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ noun C2- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- A subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
- A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman. · He made a hundred in the historic match.
- Six score of casts of crabs (a score is twenty; a cast is two), totaling two hundred and forty crabs. · Coordinate term: cast
Plural hundreds
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Number one hundred and twenty-seven is ‘Government’; which at least makes sense, though somewhat irrelevant to ourselves and Professor Moriarty.
Only imagine me a captain at twenty, with a hundred louis pay, and a share in the profits!
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
So now, you see, we begin to visualize a large book printed in double columns which are each of a considerable length, since one of the words is numbered in the document as the two hundred and ninety-third.
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